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I have a couple bridge boards that are designed to connect two standard SATA cables and a standard molex power connection. They came with some Gigabyte motherboards that I got a couple years ago.

The Big Con. I thought it an interesting article.

I've used literally dozens of those NEC SATA drives without incident. Are you sure you don't have some marginal media? Win2k has the same fundamental drivers and file-handling characteristics as XP. I sincerely doubt that it is the cause of any problems. Also, AFAIK, SATA drives don't have PIO...

Yup, the servers were all part of the same domain. I also found out that they used pretty much the most obvious password known to man (the same as their registered domain name) and none of their internal machines even had the built in Windows Firewall running. Yes, knowing that, they pretty...

Coug says he's been very busy with work and not inclined to spend leisure time at his PC at the moment. So that's one...

I, on the other hand, have far too much control of myself.

I was once eating lunch in Chicago's Chinatown. I went into a restaurant, a little hole in the wall place that just smelled spicy and awesome. I told the only guy in the place who spoke English that I wanted something hot and spicy. He asked me "How spicy you want?" I said "Bring it to me the...

Like 15 wings or so. I also had to sign a medical release before they would serve them to me. It was probably a mix of some kind of BBQ sauce with some Dave's Ultimate Insanity or something similar.

I just ate a plate of really, really (150,000 scoville) hot wings. Apparently there's a mild chemical burn around my lips, but the endorphin release has me feeling pretty damned good. And now my name is going to be engraved on a plaque for my accomplishment. :D

Also, technically, 192.168.x.y is supposed to be a /16 and not a /24, so using it as a class B sized network is certainly valid.

I know that your setup would talk if it were with a bunch of stuff on interconnected LANs and with entirely static routes. I'm less sure how well it would work over wide area links and I am thinking there is probably a good performance-related reason to not do things that way.

... on the other hand, repeated recalls for the same part are probably a decent indication of a problem. I know Ford sedans have notoriously unreliable automatic transmissions and Volvos seem to have lots of problems with turbo or fuel injection parts, and if those things are bad enough that...

This guy, looking at his offices and staffing and frankly how he dresses, probably bills out a million bucks a year. Guess who is being listened to?

If my client have enough money to care, usually they like having someone to indemnify in the event of a security lapse, which is why I usually buy Sonicwall products if they can afford them. I can make a Linux-based router/firewall out of anything.

Through my trainer job, I have come into contact with a mid-sized business - an architecture company - which is generally serviced by another contractor-type guy. This guy likes to set up Windows Servers as primary internet servers; directly connecting his Windows machines to internet...

Yeah. Proper DHCP servers pinch their cheeks to get them that color. Only the really slutty DHCP servers use rouge. Congratulations to those of you who have maintained long term relationships with females interested in the opposite gender. :|

I guess you could also define an Active Desktop .html file for that folder, if the contents of it don't change that much.

I have a couple (2) male to female bridges sitting here on my desk, now that I look around. They came with Gigabyte motherboards. Mine need a standard molex extension or molex to SATA cable. They look really cheesy.

Why bother with Active Directory? It's far more of a pain than it's worth, and OpenLDAP isn't that hard to set up.

Here's a fun idea for the non-Smoothwall types (I've never used one): OpenWRT - the alternative Linux-based firmware for the WRT54G(L) - has a Samba client. That means it can address external storage, even without a local drive. And it can run a bittorrent client. I'm not sure if there's a...

I emailed Coug and CityK. Groltz has told me in the past that he doesn't think very many people notice his contributions, and he has a history of coming and going anyway. I'm not sure I have a current E-mail address for him either. Buck never answers E-mail I send...

I can E-mail Coug and Buck should be reachable through his web site. Actually I probably have CityK and Groltz's direct email addresses as well.

I wouldn't laugh too hard, Mr. Can't Make Linux Work.

Usually you want to have a decent range open, like 10 or so ports.

Guide to making a bootable TrueImage Flash drive.

Putting a machine in DMZ means that it's not being protected by a firewall. If you're doing this for torrenting, be aware that you need to forward a range of ports, which might be why the Netgear is choking. I haven't had much luck configuring Netgear routers to do anything out of the ordinary...

At least he stopped putting inline scantily clad Asian women in his posts. Not that there's anything wrong with Asian women.

Honestly, it should be the very straightforward matter of forwarding the port twice. If that's not working, you need to make some alternative arrangements. A few thing that occur to me: 1. Put the PC on your second router's DMZ. 2. Plug the PC into the semi-public network. 3. Create a Virtual...

Odd. I was just thinking of how long it's been since Buck's been around.

Windows isn't a "desktop OS" - Windows is Windows, with some tunable parameters for desktop, application or file server workloads. You use essentially the same kernel and support files no matter what version of Windows you have (more or less, anyway). That said, x86 as a platform isn't really...

I've been pretty happy with the $15 X700SE cards that come up on woot.com from time to time, but I don't build many systems that that kind of hardware.

Speed is good, but I wish they'd take some time to reduce CPU overhead instead. Plus, I have a feeling that the market will prefer Wireless USB over greater speed.

MCSE to the rescue! The rule is: sub-"Basic" versions support one core, one processor (e.g. Starter or Legacy Windows) Home versions support one processor with as many cores as one processor can have. Professional versions can have two processors each with as many cores as any one processor...

It's supposed to be good for 500 - 600 calories an hour and a nicely elevated heart rate.

I don't particularly care for console games and their goofy, non-standard control systems. I bought Monster Rampage - I love the 25-year-old arcade game, but I'm really looking for things that require a lot of activity. I'll probably by Wii Fit when it comes out. The other titles available for...

My commute to my day job is 8.6 miles to the usual location, or 4.1 miles to one remote lab, or 160 feet to another remote lab... or 44 miles to the fourth one. When I am out doing contract work I might spend six hours in my car just driving around. I played Wii Boxing for about two hours...

Man, you're really missing out on March 14th, Steak and a BJ Day. On the other hand, I think I saw a movie about the three ghosts of Steak and a BJ Day once. It was on Cinemax really late on Friday night.

I've used these on C2D builds a couple times. I've been shipped defective fans four times out of the maybe 150 C2D systems I've put together. It doesn't have a temp sensor so it runs full blast all the time, but I don't recall the noise level as terribly objectionable. It's not silent like some...

I have an eyepatch and hat this year.

Well, the answer to that question is obviously yes, dd. They can push anything they want onto a Windows machine and there's nothing you can do to stop it except unplug from the internet or block traffic to Microsoft domains on your client machines. They're saying it's a major update to Windows...

$100 for a 1.7MB program that allows full PDF editing on Windows. The Foxit Reader is 1.5MB, and unlike the almost gross incompetence of Adobe's products, it doesn't make web browsers misbehave. It doesn't constantly bug me for updates and although I don't know this for sure, I'll bet it's a...

Uda, you have once again succeeded in making my head hurt.

... or $200 on Ebay when the people who bought them first start selling them for the upgraded version.

This thing looks kind of sexy.

Dogs are probably smarter than we think. I miss my dog. :(

I've been wondering why they renumbered my favorite cases. That's actually an excellent thing for me; I use nothing but NSK* cases in my "fleet" and lab computer builds, and more efficient power supplies are a selling point.

I don't think that multifunction devices are ever a good choice, but after getting a few converts to Samsung for small workgroup laser printers, I would be more willing to take a look at their MFP offerings than, say, HP. Depending on what they're doing, they might be able to find a deal on a...

Off the top of my head... Set up a proxy server that requires authentication. Put them on a subnet with no immediate internet access. Make them use a VPN that authenticates off a RADIUS server with some access rules. This would require Linux hacking but is kind of an awesome learning project...

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200303/rauch?r